“It’s time for an adventure,” Simone tweets. “Yes, we are walking the high wire. But I suspect the view will be amazing. Come walk with us.”

I say why the hell not?

DC plans 52 first issues (yes, yet another numerical tie-in to the 52 Earths of DC’s Multiverse) with day-and-date digital distribution. It’s a bold move for one of the Big Two comic publishers. It’s also a move the industry and especially DC had to make. And this isn’t just because, as the USA Today notes, DC has trailed Marvel in market share since 2002.

Notice a pattern here? Lots of excitement with what are essentially reboots/reimaginings of classic DC characters.

It’s only fitting DC launch this great reboot with the end of Flashpoint — a retcon fever dream if ever there was one — and a new Justice League by DC Entertainment chief creative officer Johns with art by DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee. (Dig that cover art, huh?) You don’t get more superhero Dream Team than the original JL with Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, plus the Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern and Cyborg. And you don’t get more creative Dream Team than Johns and Lee. I haven’t been this excited about a JL comic since Brad Meltzer took over a similar renumbered JL venture a few years ago.

So good on DC to start this grand venture with the greatest superhero team ever and work their way into solo character titles and the like. Kal-El and the gang couldn’t be in better hands right now, which makes the possibilities even more exciting.

And look, I totally understand the outcry against scuttling continuity. But you’re talking to a guy who’s learned to not only live with but also genuinely enjoy the reboot of Spider-Man, in my opinion the best comic book character in any multiverse. Seriously, Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott gets what makes Spidey tick — unexpected triumphs and tragedies, a guilty but good-natured conscience and never enough web fluid when he needs it.

And no, this isn’t some form of geek Stockholm Syndrome where I learned to love Joe Quesada for killing Spidey’s marriage and so many other real and perceived narrative traps. I STILL hate the way JQ dealt that great Faustian mulligan, though more so for letting Spidey’s narrative thread deteriorate so in the first place. But I’ve always believed if you’re true to the essence of these generations’ old characters, you can retell (and yes, relaunch) their stories for many generations to come.

It’s why an awesome but let’s face it ancient character like Batman works so well in what’s essentially a contemporary action thriller in The Dark Knight. Director Christopher Nolan got the essence of the Dark Knight right without having to regurgitate comic panels as movie scenes ala Zack Snyder in Watchmen or commodify better costumes over better characters to fill them ala Joel Schumaker’s Mardi Gras mayhem with Batman or Sam Raimi’s ludicrous Spider-Man 3.

So yes, I think this bold plan to restart the DC Universe is not only necessary but also welcome. It’s the real Crisis of Infinite possibilities that readers new and old have been waiting for. Besides, as Simone tweets (I tell you she’s addicted) we’ve had a Golden Age of comics and then a Silver Age with newer versions of many characters.

“It was exciting,” she says.

This is, too. And I can’t wait.

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